A bag of gold, bronze and iron jewelry found in Kazakhstan
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On the territory of the Necropolis of Yeleke Saz, Kazakhstan, archaeologists made a sensational discovery. A bag of gold artifacts was discovered.
The largest barrow with a diameter of more than 90 meters has long preserved ancient artifacts. In the niche of one of the burial chambers in a felt bag lay gold, bronze and iron objects, dated, presumably, by the 8th century BC. Over time, they formed a single lump.
After cleaning, unique gold figurines of argali, leopards, griffins, as well as bracelets, hryvnia and other jewelry were revealed. Special attention of archaeologists has attracted the iconic golden deer, the horns of which are made of the finest gold wire.
Figures of argali and leopards are made in a three-dimensional image, which were previously encountered much later, in the IV-III centuries BC, mainly in the Pazyryk monuments.
According to the archeologist Zeinnoll Samashev, it was previously believed that the image of a griffin in the steppe Eurasia was formed approximately in the 6th century BC. But judging by the new artifacts from Eleke Saz, the origins of the image of the gryphon go much deeper than the VIII century BC.
